[Zulf glances up once in a while, enough to show that he's listening; Archer has never really been one for eye contact anyway, from what he's seen, and the braiding work is calming, letting him gather his thoughts on the matter.]
What you did was very logical, I think. You knew he had an issue with being locked up, but it sounds as though you saw it as a matter of keeping him safe overall and making him unhappy for a little while, instead of letting him do what he wanted and risking his death. It's a very logical way to go about it. Obviously it would be better to see him displeased than dead.
Your friend, on the other hand, seems more freespirited than logical. It's not...bad, exactly, but he lives for what's happening to him now, and deals with the effects as they come. People like that tend to see the future as following what's happening right now - it sounds obvious to just say it like that, but it's the difference between thinking that it's better to see him displeased than dead, and thinking that you're harming him now and there's nothing to stop you from doing that in the future. "Why" probably doesn't matter very much to him in situations like that; he just knows what's happening is something he has serious issues with, and he wants to protect himself from that ever happening again.
I obviously just know what I've seen of him, so I might be wrong. But I don't think you were wrong to protect him. He's not wrong in wanting to defend himself if he had problems with your methods, either, but you weren't wrong in using them.
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What you did was very logical, I think. You knew he had an issue with being locked up, but it sounds as though you saw it as a matter of keeping him safe overall and making him unhappy for a little while, instead of letting him do what he wanted and risking his death. It's a very logical way to go about it. Obviously it would be better to see him displeased than dead.
Your friend, on the other hand, seems more freespirited than logical. It's not...bad, exactly, but he lives for what's happening to him now, and deals with the effects as they come. People like that tend to see the future as following what's happening right now - it sounds obvious to just say it like that, but it's the difference between thinking that it's better to see him displeased than dead, and thinking that you're harming him now and there's nothing to stop you from doing that in the future. "Why" probably doesn't matter very much to him in situations like that; he just knows what's happening is something he has serious issues with, and he wants to protect himself from that ever happening again.
I obviously just know what I've seen of him, so I might be wrong. But I don't think you were wrong to protect him. He's not wrong in wanting to defend himself if he had problems with your methods, either, but you weren't wrong in using them.